| "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." »Albert Einstein |
| "I stalk my prison like my own ghost..." »Roger Zelazny |
| "We must have a program to learn the way out of prison." »Warren Earl Burger |
| "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." »Oscar Wilde |
| "The White House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman |
| "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." »Victor Hugo |
| "If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging." »Joe Martin |
| "The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget." »Mitchell Burgess |
| "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." »Muammar Qaddafi |
| "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." »Emily Dickinson |
| "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." »Edward P. Morgan |
| "Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." »Edward De Bono |
| "If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| "Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it." »Sir Thomas More |
| "The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." »Andre Malraux |
| "Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." »Mary Lou Cook |
| "One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition." »Israel Zangwill |
| "If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones." »Peter McWilliams |
| "A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself." »Jessamyn West |
| "Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thamas De Quincey |
| "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." »Charles Langbridge Morgan |
| "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck |
| "There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be." »Pearl Buck |
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